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Species Triepeolus grandis - Great Feather-tongue-Cuckoo
The bees of Colorado (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) By V.L. Scott, J.S. Ascher, T. Griswold, C.R. Nufio
Natural History Inventory of Colorado 23: vi+100 pp., 2011
Full text
List of ~950 spp. in 66 genera with county-level records
Contributed by v belov on 11 November, 2011 - 9:30am |
Bees of the World By C. O'Toole & A. Raw
Blandford. 192 pp., 1999
Contributed by v belov on 8 May, 2011 - 9:44pm |
Bees of Wisconsin (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) By A.T. Wolf & J.S. Ascher
The Great Lakes Entomologist 41: 129-168, 2009
Contributed by v belov on 8 May, 2011 - 5:28pm |
The Biology and External Morphology of Bees: With a Synopsis of the Genera of Northwestern America By W. P. Stephen, G.E. Bohart, and P.F. Torchio
Agricultural Experiment Station, Oregon State University-Corvallis, 1969
Full Text here.
An excellent resource with very detailed discussions of bee morphology, behavior, and biology---from identification to genus, to in-depth coverage of (a surprisingly diverse variety of) nest architectures. Very readable, even though largely written at a technical level. Many helpful diagrams throughout. In particular, nearly every couplet of the key to genera is accompanied by illustrations for clarifying the characters and terms being discussed.
I find this book to be a very interesting and helpful reference...only wish it included all of western (and not just northwestern) America!
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The Bees of the World, 2nd edition By Charles D. Michener
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
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The Bee Genera of North and Central America (Hymenoptera:Apoidea) By Charles D. Michener, Ronald J. McGinley, Bryan N. Danforth
Smithsonian Books, 1994
This work (written in English and Spanish) describes 169 genera of the region. Two keys are inluded: to the families, and to the genera of each family of bees of North and Central America. I find the detailed, and labeled, anatomical drawings useful, even without a microscope. (Of course, specimen and microscope make the work far more useful!)
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 The Bees of the World By Charles Duncan Michener
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
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Trap-nesting wasps and bees: life histories, nests, and associates By Krombein K.V.
Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC. vi+570 pp., 1967
Contributed by v belov on 21 February, 2022 - 8:37pm |
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